Crusading politician exposes brothel visitors on Facebook

A New Zealand political candidate exposed local brothel visitors by posting their car number plates on Facebook yesterday in a bid to close the business down.

Wayne Hawker then responded to claims that his “moral crusade” is a breach of privacy rights and prone to legal action by daring the ten people he exposed to “bring it on”, Stuff.co.nz reports.

The council candidate's Facebook post followed his threat to do so last week after the business had operated for six weeks.

He then staked the property out for three nights, even recording the number plates of those who parked down the road and walked into the brothel.

“…here is the list of registrations that have been recorded with the vechiles (sic) either onsite or the driver seen parking his car in the street and entering the property,” he posted yesterday on Facebook, followed by a list of ten registration plates.

"It shouldn't be operating in a residential area where there are children and families," Hawker said.

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"If someone's son or daughter uses their dad's car for instance and goes to a brothel and that rego number is published online ... a person could suffer an unwarranted slur on their reputation," he told Stuff.co.nz.

But the crusading political candidate replied, "What are they going to do? Embarrass themselves to bring legal action against me? They can bring it on."